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Dan Zimmerman Music Video: "It All Happened So Fast"

Those of you who have been reading Positive Feedback for a long while will likely recognize the name Dan Zimmerman. He is a very close friend and fellow sojourner with me, and we have many deep interests in common: film, painting, photography, videos, poetry, philosophy, Christian life and thought, and spirituality...the list is a long one.

Dan has been an artist and cartoonist with PF since the very early 1990s, with many of his drawings gracing our pages regularly since then. He's a very gifted man, with notable abilities in drawing, cartooning, and painting. In fact, I own a couple of Dan's oil paintings, one of which was featured on the cover of one of our paper-and-ink issues back in the day. Both paintings hang in my reference listening room, where they have occasioned many comments over the years.

Likewise, Dan is a notable singer, songwriter, and guitarist, with a handful of albums to his credit.

Just recently Dan shared with me a YouTube link to a music video from one of his more recent albums, Dreams of Earth. The song in the video is "It All Happened So Fast," and is a reflection upon the mystery of life, and how quickly it passes.

The new Walker Audio Proscenium Air Supply System...a major development (installed April 6-7, 2016).

The darTZeel CTH-8550 Integrated Amplifier is now doing a brilliant job taking the feed from the new Walker Audio Procession Reference Phono Amp and piping the feed to the Evolution Acoustics MM2 Loudspeakers.

On the other side of the listening room, the Audionet PAM G2 Reference Phono Amplifier, powered by the Audionet EPX Reference Power Supply, handles the feeds from the Wave Kinetics NVS Reference Turntable and the KRONOS Pro LE Reference Turntable.

The Audionet MAX Monoblock Reference Amplifiers.

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Our current (June, 2016) double Stillpoints ESS Reference Rack with Grid Shelves, with many of our current sources and electronics.

The KLAudio KD-CLN-LP200 Ultrasonic Record Cleaner with its LP Loader option, automatically cleaning up to 5 LPs at a time.

My listening room is of irregular shape, being 12.5' wide x 13.5' long in the right section, and 18' long in the left (equipment) section, with a ceiling height of 8'. It is cambered left and right, with no perpendicular edge on the sidewalls to ceiling transition. Construction was done with 2" x 6" studs, wall-within-a-wall on the left and right sides (media storage in a room to the left, equipment storage in a room to the right). The room is on the second floor, directly over the garage—no competing sounds. The neighborhood is quiet, being located on top of a hill some 500 feet above the valley below, the listening room faces south, away from the main access road. I've measured the room's noise floor using the AudioTools app with my iPhone 6+ at 30dB, a very good number for the "real world." In other words, pretty bloody quiet.

Power to components in the listening room is fully dedicated. 10 gauge Romex was pulled directly from the panel, all from the same pole to avoid ground loops. Four 20 amplifier runs were done, and Tesla Flex and JENA Labs cryo-treated AC receptacles were installed. All lights and peripheral components are on separate circuits. Circuits have been tested for proper ground and polarity.

The home theater system is housed in our great room. The dimensions are 18' wide by 24' long, with a peaked and vaulted ceiling that's 16' high at the center of the lengthwise room line. The fireplace forces a "shift left" of the High Definition TV and the L/C/R playback, a necessary compromise that skews the sound somewhat, but still allows for a satisfying home theater/surround sound experience.

Robinson's Reference Desktop/Computer-based/Internet-based Music System

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